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UNITED STATES JAMES I. COMLY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,203, dated December 23, 1890.

Application led October 24, 1890. Serial Nol 369,244. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JAMES I. COMLY, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Houses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention has relation to the construction ot' houses, particularly such as are built in rows having front and back buildings; and it consists in a house having a front and back building, in which the front building of the first story is longer than the front building of the second or upper stories, and in which the rear wall of the front building of the second and upper stories is within the line of the rear wall of the front building of the first story, and the side wall of the second and upper stories of the back building extends to the rear wall of the front building of the second and upper stories, and consequently beyond the line of the rear wall ot' the front building of the first story, leaving uncovered a space in the ceiling of the back part of the front building of the iirst story, which may be used as a skylight or window.

The object of my invention is to provide a door-space in all the stories of such a size and shape as to admit of convenient, sym'- metrical, well-lighted, and desirable interior divisions, and at the same time to economize in space and cost of construction.

In houses, as above mentioned, builtin rows with front and back buildings, as usually constructed, the first story of the front building contains the parlor and hall, while the diningroom is generally in the back building and is poorly lighted, the length of the parlorbef ing in this construction the length of the front building in all the stories and is insufficient to'make two desirable-sized rooms over it in each of the second and upper stories. In my construction the front building is made long enough in the first story to contain the parlor and hall, together wit-h a dining-room in the rear of them, extending the whole width of the said front building. The samesized front building in the second and upper stories would be undesirable, as the back one of the two rooms into which it would be divided in each story .would be too long and poorly proportioned; but making the front building in the second and upperstories shorter than the front building in the first story gives a convenient size to the back room ot' the front building` in each ot' the second and upper stories, places the bath-room, while in the back building of the second story, over the front building of the first story, giving it a communicating door With the back room of the front building and thus allowing the back stairway, by being placed back of the bath-room, to have have a landing in the first story back ot' the diningroom, and at the same time, by using the space of the ceiling ofthe back part of the front building of the irst story left uncovered by making the front building in the second and upper stories shorter than in the first story, as a skylight or Window in addition to the `other window, giving to the dining room much greater and sufficient light. In this construction the width instead of the length of the dining-room, as in the old way, is a part of the total length of the house, thereby shortening the length and consequently diminishing the cost of construction.

In the accompanying drawings similar let tcrsot reference refer to similar part-s throughout.

Figure l is a plan view of the lirst floor of a building containing my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view ot1 the second iioor. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a building containing my improved construction,partially in section, on the line a: :n of Fig. l.

A A are respectively the side walls of the front part of the building. B is the front wall, and B the rear wall, of the front building of the iirst story.

C C are the side walls, respectively, of the back building. A girder G, of wood or metal, extends across the rear part of the front building on a level with the" second floor from thewall A to the wall A and is built therein,be ing situated at a desirable distance from the rear wall Bsay six or seven feet. A longitudinal girder G is built into the side wall C and forms a continuation therewith to the girder G, to which it is connected and secured. Upon the girder G is built the rear wall Bzof the second or upper floors of the main building, while the side wall C of the second and IOO u pper doors of the back building is continued and built upon the girder G and connected with the Wall B2. It will thus be seen that the second and upper stories of the front building will be smaller than the first story of the front building, as the rear wall B2 of the second and upper stories is built Within the rear wall B of the first floor. In this manner the building can be more symmetrieally divided. At the saine tinie space and expense are economized. The rear room of the rst floor of the main building, which is above termed the dining1'oo1n,is advantageously lighted by a skylight S, constructed in the space Where the Wall B2 recedes. A window may also be provided in the rear wall B.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

l. A building in which the rear wall of the front building of' the second or upper stories is Within the line of the rear wall of the front building of the first story,'and in which the side Wall of the rear building in the second or upper stories extends to the rear wall of the front building of the second or upper stories and Within the line of the rear Wall of the front building of the first story, substantially as described.

2. A building composed of a lront and rear building having a Wall B of the front building of the first story extending beyond the rear Wall B2 of the second or upper floors, and the side wall C of the rear building extending in the second or upper stories Wi thin the wall B to the Wall B2, latitudinal girder G, supporting the Wall B2, and longitudinal girder G', connected with the girder G and supporting a portion of the side Wall C of the second and upper stories, as described.

3. A structure composed of' a front and rear building, in which the front building of the second or upper stories is smaller than the front building` of the first story, having a rear Wall B2 of the second or upper stories constructed over the back room of the front building' of the first story and Within the rear wall B of the front building of the first story, a cross-girder G, supporting the Wall B2, a longitudinal girder G', connected at right angles with the girderG and supporting a portion of the side Wall of the second and upper floors of the back building, and a skylight S, construoted in the ceiling of the rear roorn of the front building of the first story between the girder G and the rear Wall B', substantially as described.

at. A house or structure having front and back buildings, in which the rear Wall of the front building in the second or upper stories is built over the back room or part ofthe first story of the front buildingv Within the line of the rear Wall of the front building on a beam or girder extending across the building from Wall to Wall, and in which aportion of the side Wall of' the rear building in the second or upper stories is also built over the back room or part of the first story of the front building on a longitudinal beam or girder extending to the said cross-beam or girder and connected therewith, the space in the ceiling or roof of the back part of the first story in the front building not built over beyond the rear Wall in the second or upper stories of the front building being adapted as a skylight and for Ventilating purposes, if desired, substantially. as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of October, A. I). 1890.

JAMES I. COMLY. Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. STEWART,J1., HORACE PETTIT. 

